Word: shock
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...shock of recognition is acute. Skeletal figures behind barbed wire. Murdered babies in a bus. Two and a half million people driven from their homes in an orgy of "ethnic cleansing." Detention camps, maybe even concentration camps. Surely these pictures and stories come from another time -- the Dark Ages, the Thirty Years' War, Hitler's heyday. Psychic defenses struggle to minimize, to deny, to forget. Not here; not now. Europeans were supposed to have learned from the last terrible war on their soil not to murder their neighbors. Educated people, on the verge of the 21st century, in a relatively...
...banking industry's willingness to accept the warrants has acted as a shock absorber in keeping the pressure off the legislature to solve the budget problem," concluded California Banking Association official Greg Wilhelm. With that, after swallowing a total of 876,000 California IOUS worth nearly $2 billion, the Bank of America and other leading California banks last week stopped honoring the so-called registered warrants, which the state has been paying out in lieu of real money...
...their landlocked Himalayan kingdom and into the flashbulb glare of Barcelona's Olympics. Anxiously consulting an astrologer before they left, Bhutan's Olympians -- all archers -- had never boarded a plane before, or experienced summer heat. The Olympic Village was almost the size of their capital, Thimbu. And the biggest shock of all, said Namgyal Lhamu, was "the sea," which she, like the others, had only read about at home. "I thought Barcelona was going to be peaceful, like Thimbu," added a cheerful Pem Tshering. "But it's so busy!" High-rise buildings, spiceless food, subway trains -- everything was a source...
...welcome. Would his supporters turn out to be "basically conservative," as George Bush was quick to characterize them? Or were they issuing a "call to change," as Clinton rushed to claim? Early polls showed more of Perot's supporters opting for Clinton, but many were still too deep in shock to reconsider their options. Some were insisting that they would still cast a protest vote for Perot, whose name will remain on the ballot in half the states or more. In time, many of them will begin warily examining the candidates of the two shopworn parties they abandoned just...
...past year, Johnson had been focusing on catching up to the favored O'Brien at the trials and beating him at the Olympics. "He trained like a maniac to beat Dan," says Johnson's coach, Terry Franson. Johnson's emotional response to O'Brien's inexplicable miss -- shock at first, and then a bear hug of support -- reflected Dave's conflicted feelings. On the one hand, O'Brien no longer stood between Johnson and the gold medal. On the other, the competition would somehow be diminished by his friendly rival's self- demolition...